More than 1,600 Rohingya refugees sailed on Friday from Bangladesh’s southern port of Chittagong for the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal, a naval official said, despite opposition from humanitarian groups against the move. The South Asian nation says it is only moving refugees who areContinue Reading
Hyderabad: The fear of deportation to Myanmar has been haunting an estimated 6,000 Rohingya refugees in Hyderabad for years, but their very survival is now at stake because of the Covid-19 pandemic that has robbed them of their livelihoods. “Forget about going back to our country, our worry now isContinue Reading
The Hague, Jan 23, 2020: In a sweeping legal victory for members of the Rohingya Muslim minority, the United Nations’ top court on January 23 ordered Myanmar take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people. The court’s President, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the InternationalContinue Reading
By Muktadir Rashid Dhaka, July 31, 2019: Senior Christian religious leaders in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and Caritas Internationalis called on Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and wanted to know what they could do for the Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar camps. Emerging from a closed-door meeting at the secretariat inContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Cox Bozar, Bangladesh, Dec. 11, 2018: Caritas Bangladesh and the Jesuit Relief Service (JRS) have been providing psycho-social support to Rohingya children. One of the compelling sights in all the 30 makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar is that of little children and youth filling the camps. TheirContinue Reading
Vatican City– The Vatican’s long-rumored China deal was discussed by Myanmar’s bishops this week during an ad limina visit with Pope Francis, according to the Archbishop of Yangon. Cardinal Charles Maung Bo told CNA that during a 90 minute conversation, the bishops talked with Pope Francis about work for reconciliationContinue Reading
The restive Arakan state in northwest of Myanmar has been historically a boiling pot of ethnic conflictContinue Reading
Vatican City: Just two months after his recent visit to Bangladesh, Pope Francis Monday welcomed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the Vatican, where they discussed positive inter-faith relations in the country and the need to find a lasting solution to the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis. According to a Feb. 12Continue Reading
Bangladesh wants to send up to 100,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar in the first batch of repatriations of Muslim refugees who fled ethnic violence this year, officials said today.Continue Reading
Pope repeated the word: “Forgiveness.”Continue Reading